Month: June 2018

When Internet Marketing experts talk about social media marketing, they usually never utter the word LinkedIn.

They usually talk about Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and occasionally Twitter.

No matter what you do in digital marketing, networking will always benefit you and your business.

So the more you can network and expand your connections the better chance you’ll stumble upon someone or some business that will benefit you in some shape or form.

If you’re into consulting and working with local businesses, then you know how hard it is to get business owners to respond to cold emails, craigslist replies, and Facebook ads.

It’s all about the KLT (know, like and trust) factors.

One way to break the those barriers down is through referrals.

Ever notice how much easier it is to get a client that’s been referred to you by an acquaintance?

It’s night and day…

I don’t know the exact numbers, but I probably close 80-90% of referred business vs about 3-5% of cold business.

LinkedIn is constantly evolving with new features and making it a more viable option to really benefit from using it.

If you want to expand your connections, one of the best ways is to go out connect with 2nd and 3rd tier associates.

But if you are going to do that, you need to make sure you don’t over do it in a 24 hour period.

LinkedIn like Twitter, has limitations to how many people you can connect with in a day. So don’t try to connect with more than 20 or so per day.

Also when you connect add a note and put something like, “Hi, I see we’re a 2nd degree connection. I’m interested in hearing more about what you do and if there’s anything I can do to help you or your business. Talk soon! :-)”

I suggest trying to connect with everyone in your city or area, to do that I would say something about being in the same city (i.e “Hi, I see we’re a 2nd degree connection and also in Las Vegas. I’m interested in hearing more about what you do and if there’s anything I can do to help you or your business. Talk soon! :-)”).

This works great to get people to connect and typically even starts a conversation, but can become burdensome and a daunting task.

As an alternative you can just click on people’s profiles as it then notifies them of who has been viewing their profiles. This usually will peak someone’s interest and they will view your profile back and if you have a strong call to action the traffic will eventually result in new business.

But to click on profile after profile can also be a tedious task.

Wouldn’t it be cool if there were some sort of application that would automate this task for you?

Well you’re in luck…There is!

There’s a new piece of software and some training called LI Client Igniter that is a Google Chrome extension to automate this entire process.

Now if someone would just put out a Chrome extension that would do all the connections with a note on autopilot then we’d really be cookin’!

Maybe the guys behind LI Client Igniter are working behind the scenes on a second Google Chrome extension…

We’ll have to wait and see.

In the comments below, please let me know how these couple techniques workout for you and your business.

Have you seen that video going around on Facebook of the two boys in timeout but can’t help themselves but to start dancing when their favorite song comes on?

If you haven’t seen it yet, here it is.

As you can see that video has gotten 21 million views, 14K likes, 21K comments and 277K shares!

If you can get just one post go viral like that you will get all the traffic you need to your Facebook page and your page will instantly grow with likes and followers.

Obviously the reach of a Facebook page is still not what it used to be, but posting content that has the potential to go viral is the caveat that still gets the maximum reach of your page’s audience and of course because the content goes “viral” that means it’s reaching a lot of people who are not in your page’s audience.

Can you see the potential here?

You can do this in just about any niche including but not limited to cats, dogs, 2nd amendment, etc.

As you can see from the post above they just started a page called Viral Moments and Viral Audience and post anything and everything that has the potential to go viral.

The trick to a page like this is to find good quality content that’s encouraged to be shared.

Me.me is a great site to find viral content.

Once you have picked your niche you’ll need to pick a good name that’s memorable.

Stay away from generic names like Best Cat Videos or Best Funny Dogs.

Since there’s so many Facebook pages, most people pack it in and use something very general. This is a huge mistake!

Your page needs a unique name that when someone tells someone about it they can easily find it when they search Facebook.

The next thing you’ll need to do is put up a great profile pic and cover image.

Then seed your page with about 10 or so posts go fill out your page.

Once you’ve done that the next thing you’ll want to do is find other large pages in your niche and post comments on other pages viral posts. But whatever you do, DO NOT spam them!

Just say something like, “Wow this is really funny! Check us out if you want to see funny stuff similar to this.”

Make sure you post to these other large pages in your niche under the page you want to drive the traffic to.

Then just be consistent and make sure you post regularly on a schedule.

That’s pretty much all there is to it.

So how will you take advantage of these viral Facebook pages? Please leave a comment below.

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Hi, I'm Kerry Knoll and welcome to Growth Hack Mindset. I'm a Digital Marketing Consultant and I help local businesses.

It didn't take me long to realize that local businesses need assistance with their digital marketing. So I created Growth Hack Mindset to be a resource for those who are looking to build their own Digital Marketing Agency so they can help local businesses as well.